It was while reading The Knot of Vipers that Bernard Cazeneuve discovered François Mauriac, about whom he has just written a very personal book. And it is by seeing the knot of vipers of the left shaped by Jean-Luc Mélenchon that the former prime minister intends to revive French social democracy. Fascinated by the "darkness of feelings" of Mauritian heroes, he is repulsed by the darkness of the resentment of the Nupesian herald. Former elected representative of Cherbourg, Cazeneuve returns in his own way, "passionately moderate", a quality that Tocqueville recognized to the people of La Manche. This is its originality and its limit as the future of the left is as much a matter of ideological line as of personal equation.
The starting point is clear. Like François Hollande, like Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, Michaël Delafosse or Anne Hidalgo, the mayors of Rouen, Montpellier and Paris, like Carole Delga or Loïg Chesnais-Girard, the bosses of the Occitanie and Brittany regions, the former head of government refuses a left...
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